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Kyle Reese

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  1. On 04/04/2024 at 11:04, Ric said:

    Considering the way your fans react to games between us? Yes, yes I do.

    You would fucking love for that scenario to come about, and you'd crow like nobody's business if it were to happen, so stop trying to pretend you wouldn't. :rolleyes:

    You flatter yourself way too much. I would much prefer your lot to make top six than Hibs. 

  2. 1 minute ago, Eddie Hitler said:

    Yeah and did no-one think of any of this in the planning stage the bally thing was being built?

    Should they not have found a better site?

    This is a thing entirely of Livingston's own making which apparently has to become everyone else's problem, alongside the notion that all the other clubs are supposed to care about Livingston maximising revenue.

    Someone had to say it. 

  3. 39 minutes ago, Disco Duck said:

    There are minimum standards.  And “looks better” has nothing to do with it.

    ill ask again - can someone explain what makes a grass pitch better than an artificial surface?  I don’t even mean to the extent that it justifies pulling up the drawbridge yet again, I just mean why would you choose grass over plastic?

    I do not have the data, sorry. I also do not have the data about whether galvanised rubber would be any worse than grass though, or clay… 

  4. 5 hours ago, chris1883 said:

    Rovers were playing Partick last night. I would encourage everyone advocating for the synthetic pitch ban to go and have a look at the Firhill surface (grass) and compare it to Starks Park (synthetic). Rovers' pitch is far superior. The ball bounces with consistency and runs true at Starks', it certainly did not at Firhill.

    It would make a huge amount of sense to me, if prior to the vote the club chairmen, club managers and club captains visit a few ground to see the realities of Scottish Synthetic and Grass surfaces. I worry that they are going to vote based on reasoning's other than the realities of what's out there.

    The managers and captains will be well aware of the quality.

  5. 1 hour ago, RandomGuy. said:

    Isnt that all a problem of clubs like your own, and mine, that walked away though? Cant remember who started it, but once one team walked away (did Celtic or Rangers not claim theyd play friendlies v European sides every week instead? Remember thinking it was just an attempt to kill the reserve league to strengthen their "B teams need put in the league" shite) it felt like others starting thinking it was a waste of time.

    There was a vote to scrap it due to cost. I seem to remember Levein at United being on that side of the fence at the time. I do not recall Hearts ever wanting it scrapped though. Rangers, Celtic and possibly one of Hibs and Aberdeen might have wanted to explore other options, like you mention. I just want it back tbh, and I think our league is a worse set-up without it. The reasons why Scottish players stymie at c20 years old are varied and many, and access to pitches is a part of the problem. Not having an adequate step between underage and first team is another.

  6. 2 hours ago, RandomGuy. said:

    What about the current set up do you not like?

    As far as i can tell senior players can still play in it beside youngsters? Kilmarnocks last game had Gary Mackay-Steven in it, as an example.

    Number of clubs, number of matches, regularity of matches.

  7. 16 hours ago, lubo_blaha said:

    Livingston and Kilmarnock are two of the four Premiership sides who bother to participate in the reserve league.

    Yes, and good on them. The reserve league however is not fit for purpose and it needs to be compulsory. It also needs to allow the mixing of youth and returning players from injury, as it once was. The current set up is utter shite. I would prefer my team to have a reserve team in a proper reserve league than a B Team in the Lowland League, personally. If I were to compromise on either proper grass pitches, or a functional reserve league, then it would be an easy choice. We currently have a situation where we have the worst of both worlds.

  8. I am still for getting rid of them. I think an elite level league should have certain things that are not compromised on. Full participation in a reserve league. A youth system. Grass pitches. Undersoil hearing and good drainage. Grass pitch. If that impacts the amount to be spent on first team players then so be it. I do not really get how some clubs can argue that their artificial surface is good for youth development and argue against a bigger league and reserve league, when both of those latter things would improve youth development.

     

     

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